Comments on: How to add a jquery/ajax contact form to Wordpress

By: Dharam

Dharam — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:07:34 +0000

Cool! after hitting the wall with my head for 4 hours, this step-by-step guide worked like a charm and “chain-able” as well (to do extra validation).Thanks

By: Josh Vermaire

Josh Vermaire — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:11:10 +0000

This was exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot for taking the time to walk step by step through an ajax contact form.

By: carson

carson — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:54:13 +0000

Connie: Make sure that your theme has already included the jQuery Framework, otherwise it won’t work!

Steve: There is a nice plugin “WP Captcha Free” that will Block comment spam without the hassle of captcha. It should protect your contact form submissions too. Let me know if it doesn’t please. It has a sophisticated algorithm that has protected my site and blocks out all the spam. : ) Search WP site for free plugin name.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:18:50 +0000

Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for a nice way to build in a simple contact form in a WordPress template without requiring a plugin. I REALLY like that it transparently inserts the admin_email so the user doesn’t have to manually muck with the code to insert their email address. My only concern is there doesn’t appear to be any attention given to sanitizing the input to thwart any malicious code injection attempts. Do you have any recommendations for how to tighten up the security of this form? Thanks for this very helpful post.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:06:59 +0000

Okay, I guess I must’ve gone wrong somewhere in step 3… I’m not sure how though. Can you please help me out on this? I really love this theme!

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:42:04 +0000

I think I followed all of your directions correctly but when I make the final change to the functions php something goes wrong. I end up with text at the top of my wp admin page and the same text appears on the contact page of my website. Is there something I need to adjust in the code in order to make it work properly? I’m using wp-creativix, does that theme include jquery framework?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:57:57 +0000

The problem is, that

add_action(‘wp_ajax_nopriv_contact_form’, ‘ajax_contact’);

will only work for users, who are not logged in within Wordpress, otherwise you will get an 0 as return value. (no_priv in add_action).

Cheers

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:27:08 +0000

ok now all of a sudden it works….how frustrating this is because i have no idea what made it work all of a sudden.

After putting all the code next to eachother, the only things i have changed is the url as stated before and adding “add_action(‘wp_ajax_contact_form’, ‘ajax_contact’);” to the functions.php. apart from that i havent changed anything else.

Thanks again for the tutorial.

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:01:52 +0000

heya mate,

Thanks for sharing this. I have been trying to apply this to my own sites but somehow i cant get it to work. I’m not sure if it supposed to be like this but if i copy/paste everything into my theme it doesnt work at all.

When i change the url: “/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php” to url: “wp-admin/admin-ajax.php” it works but not the way it should be working. When i do change it and press the submit button the error div shows up but only showing a 0. I have been trying to read through the codex but somehow i just cant find out what the problem is, maybe you have an idea what it might be?

thnx

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:44:12 +0000

Hey buddy,
can u please tell me how can i add styles to sidebars like u have used css for “Pages” sidebar in demo page ?